Jim Kempner Fine Art will present Changing Faces, an exhibition of contemporary portraits by Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Lucian Freud, Elizabeth Peyton, Jonathan Santlofer, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Brenda Zlamany, and others. The show, which opens June 12 and runs through July 24, will include prints, drawings, photographs and paintings. The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6; and Sundays in June from 12-5. In a recent article about contemporary portraiture in Art on Paper, Terrie Sultan, curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, states:

"The triangulation of perception in a portrait is essential to its expressive force. Balanced among subject, artist, and viewer is the external and internal identity of a portrait. How we understand the portrait depends on how our gaze has been defined, refined, and informed by our own experience and social milieu.... In the most effective portraits, artists have factored in this ambiguous position, opening their subjects to a range of meanings even as they fix them in a specific time and place."

Through a selection of artists with diverse styles, the exhibition will explore the changing face of the traditional artistic terrain of the directed gaze in the late 20th Century. Highlights will include Large Head, the powerful etching of Leigh Bowery by Lucian Freud; and Self-Portrait I and Self-Portrait II, two new, deeply embossed relief prints on hand made paper, made with a special hydraulic press. Other artists in the exhibition include Deborah Barrett, John Currin, Andrew Ehrenwerth, Jessica Gandolf, Gianfranco Gorgoni, Alex Katz, and William Kentridge.

For further information, please contact the gallery at 212-206-6872

Women in Print, an exhibition featuring prints by women artists Jennifer Bartlett, Lesley Dill, Helen Frankenthaler, Elizabeth Murray, Kiki Smith, Pat Steir, Kara Walker and others, will be at Jim Kempner Fine Art from March 6 through April 11, 1998. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6 and Sunday from 12 - 5.

The art of the print has been central to the career of many women artists.This exhibition will focus on the visual exploration through the various print media - woodcut, lithography, silkscreen, etching and aquatint. Major print workshops, including ULAE, Gemini, Tyler and Parasol Press will be represented.

Among the works in the exhibition will be Waterfall, 1988, the exquisite aquatint by Pat Steir in which the waterfall is a delicate, streaming current of light, shadow, and form; Untitled (Baby's Legs), 1990, a unique print variant printed by the artist; and Paper Under Tape, Paint over Paper by Sylvia Plimack Mangold, a splendid example of Mangold's trompe l'oeil illusionism and her insistence that the print is meant to be seen as an idea of a thing, despite the risk that it may be mistaken for the thing itself.

For further information, please contact us at (212) 206-6872.